Photographs, Outstanding People with a Fisk Connection
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938). Poet, essayist, lyricist. Legendary poet who wrote the universally admired work, The Creation (1927). With his brother, co-authored The Negro National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing. Served as the Adam K....
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON HOUSE (1931). Formerly the residence of renowned poet, James Weldon Johnson, who occupied the Adam K. Spence Chair of Creative Literature and Writing from 1931 to 1938 at Fisk University. (Still standing)
This is a group of students traveled with Mrs. Ella Sheppard front row right sitting and Professor Spence who sang at the National Christian Endeavor Convention in Nashville 1898.
SPENCE / WORK HOUSE (1884). Formerly the home of Adam K. Spence, second principal of Fisk University and John W. Work, Fisk University professor, composer, and Director of the Jubilee Singers. (Still standing)
SPENCE / WORK HOUSE (1884). Formerly the home of Adam K. Spence, second principal of Fisk University and John W. Work, Fisk University professor, composer, and Director of the Jubilee Singers. (Still standing)
The bulletin of Atlanta University was a publication sent to faculty, friends and alumni of the institution; Telling of the institution's progress and present needs. This issue is January 1900, no. 106.
The bulletin of Atlanta University was a publication sent to faculty, friends and alumni of the institution; Telling of the institution's progress and present needs. This issue is January 1902, no. 124.
